May « 2011 « Adoring Stana Katic

Here’s a video of Stana singing a song she wrote at the Zlin Film Festival. Huge thank you to Malwina for taking this video and sharing it with the rest of us!

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I’ve added some photos to the gallery of Stana at the Zlin Film Festival. These are the ones I found on the festival’s official website. I know there are a ton of fan photos out there, and if anyone would like to donate any of theirs to the site, we would love to have them, and would give full credit to the owners! You can find a way to contact us in our sidebar. In the meantime, enjoy these!

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So many of you that are attending the Zlin Film Festival have been gracious enough to take lots of videos for those of us that couldn’t be there. We’ve got a collection of videos from all the fans that have uploaded them to twitter and facebook. Thank you so much to everyone that has shared! The first few videos are of Stana signing autographs and meeting her fans. The last one is a Q&A introduction to ‘For Lovers Only.’

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I stumbled across this video today and wanted to share it. It’s an old interview, from Season 1, with Stana and Nathan. I figured if I had never seen it before, there was a good chance that a lot of other people hadn’t seen it before. Enjoy!

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I know a lot of us have been waiting for these, and today Brian Bowen Smith finally released some teaser photos from the photoshoot he did with Stana. Check them out in the gallery. We’ll make sure to keep an eye out for the rest of them!

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She is the no-nonsense and intense Detective Kate Beckett in the popular crime series Castle. An email chat with the Serb-Croatian actress Stana Katic…

How has it been playing Kate Beckett in Castle?

I relate to Kate Beckett in a lot of ways. I think she is a strong, independent, career-driven woman who is not afraid to show her feminine side. At the same time, we differ in that I am more of a free spirit and perhaps less “by the book” than she is.

What about the character that attracted you?

It was a really strong and fun character. I enjoyed the dynamics between the characters in the pilot, and loved the idea of learning stunts and performing action sequences.

What kind of research has gone into playing Beckett?

I am a method actor, so when I landed the role I travelled to New York, solved a homicide involving a zoo keeper and two escaped orangutans from Central Park Zoo. Then I bought myself a police badge and practised pulling it out in front of the mirror roughly 48 times!

What’s it like to work with the cast of Castle?

It’s all about the people you work with. If it’s a great working environment it makes the job all that much easier. Not only is the cast fantastic but the crew as well. Everyone is an absolute joy to work with here and when you are fifteen hours into a day, that is what makes all the difference.

When you get along with and work well with other actors it is easy to have a good chemistry because you have a natural affinity with them. That is what it is like working with the entire cast, we are now all great friends and so working together on camera comes easily.

There is a lot of physicality that comes with the character. You also mentioned in an interview that you look at her as a female superhero. Has it been comfortable playing someone like that?

Like I said, it was a very strong character. I enjoyed playing her and doing all the action stunts that you don’t see women on television do so often. I believe a woman can be strong, intelligent, sexy and feminine. I consciously pushed Beckett in that direction because I believe it is important to show a woman in that light. And the audiences have certainly responded in a positive manner. I am always receiving wonderful comments from women and even men who find it refreshing to see a modern woman in such a positive and relevant way.

How would you like Beckett’s character to develop in subsequent seasons?

For Beckett, in particular, audiences will learn more about the backstory of her mother’s murder. We also get deeper into her personal life.

Was playing a Canadian agent in the Bond film Quantum of Solace a defining moment in your career?

Every role is defining for me because with each new character you learn new things, and you harness your craft in different ways.

Viewers in India are eagerly waiting for Season 3 of Castle. Can you give us a preview of what’s in store in this season?

New love interests will be introduced for both Castle and Beckett and we get to see them grow closer than ever before. There is a Castle “engagement” to look forward to and more fun, exotic murders to solve.

Who is Kate Beckett?

Beckett is a detective with the Twelfth Precinct Homicide Squad of the New York City Police Department. After a murder in the first episode has allusions to a similar case in a book called Flowers For Your Grave written by celebrity author Richard Castle (played by Nathan Fillion), the latter is brought in to help Beckett in the case. Castle then uses his influence to stick on and write a series of novels based on Beckett, her alter-ego being named Nikki Heat. Beckett’s intensely private nature is attributed to the mystery surrounding her mother’s death. Castle manages to break through Beckett’s self-imposed barrier and in time, a relationship develops between the two, as they continue partnering each other in solving one case after another.

Since it first went on air in 2009, Castle has been nominated for four Emmys. Stana Katic has earned a Satellite nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series.

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I’ve added a section to the gallery for Stana’s newsletters. She’s done some great interviews with her Castle co-stars Jon Huertas, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Molly Quinn. She also did a four part series called “Creating Kate,” where she interviewed several members of the Castle crew on how they help put together her character. There’s also a newsletter from last summer, and the interview with Mark Polish. Make sure you check them out if you haven’t already read them! And don’t forget, you can sign-up to receive her newsletter at her official site.

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We have a brand new facebook page for the site. Follow us to get the latest news, photos and info as it surfaces! You can also meet and interact with more of Stana’s fans and make some new friends!

You can find our page HERE.

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Again, this is not necessarily Stana news, but it does pertain to Beckett, so I pulled it over from Castle Fans, to share with everyone, in case you haven’t already read it.

I’m still not over it. And I know I should be. If I was a more stable person, I might even be able to watch the airport hangar scene without crying. But you know what? I’m not. Stable is overrated. Overrated like waiting four months for new Castle. So when I interrupted Andrew Marlow’s Hawaiian vacation this week, I pressed for more about where Castle and Beckett might be headed. And from the sound of it? Next season is going to be just as good — if not better.

“I think [the finale] was a great way to chapter out on the early portion of the Beckett-Castle relationship and to transition us to an even more complex more mature aspect of their relationship as we move forward,” Marlow said. “I think that even though Castle is still kind of a charming, boyish man, we see an enormous amount of growth in him over the last three years towards a kind of maturity. It doesn’t mean he’s going to lose his boyish charm. It just means that he’s becoming more complex and interesting. The same with Beckett, a character who started off being relatively closed off.”

Marlow points to the scene in the finale where Montgomery tells Beckett that she “wasn’t having any fun” before Castle came along as an example of the kind of growth he likes to see from the pair. “We’ve really seen her start to open up to both Castle and to the audience, and there are more mysteries to mine in both of these characters, as there are in the secondary characters, but I think that this marks a new and different chapter in their relationship. We’re not looking to fundamentally change the show, we’re just looking to enhance it and make the experience even richer and more satisfying for the fans,” he said.

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I’ve added some photos to the gallery from the Arcimoto test drive at Nathan Fillion’s several months ago. This was also when Stana and Seamus Dever were filming for the Alternative Travel Project, so you can see some clips from the test drive in the ATP videos.